Marie Ange Doiron was born in January 1771 and died in December of the same year. The family was living on the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany when she was born, but it seems they had moved back to Dinard (parish of Saint-Énogat), near St-Malo, Bretagne (today Ille-et-Vilaine), around the time of her death. (The family was en route back to Prince Edward Island, Canada -- as it now is -- from which they had been expelled in 1758.) She was the daughter of Madeleine-Josèphe Bourg and the 14th known offspring of Alexis Doiron. She passed away in 1771 at Saint-Malo and was bured at the church of Saint-Énogat. She was the second daughter with this name to die in infancy. As was not uncommon at the time, when a child died, a subsequent child was often baptized with their name. A third Marie Ange, born around 1778, survived and married twice.
Sources
Arsenault, Georges. 1996. "The Saga of Alexis Doiron." The Island Magazine, No. 39 (Spring/Summer):12-18. Also posted online at [1] and at [2].
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